DOI 10.1007/s100520000480
Possible enhancement of the
cross section
in the two-Higgs-doublet model
Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Karlsruhe,
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Received: 26 November 1999 / Revised version: 7 July 2000 /
Published online: 8 September 2000 - © Springer-Verlag 2000
Abstract
The production process of the charged Higgs boson associated with a
W boson at electron-positron colliders is discussed in the
two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) and in the minimal supersymmetric standard
model (MSSM). The process is induced at one-loop level in these
models. We examine how much the cross section can be enhanced by
quark- and Higgs-loop effects. In the non-SUSY 2HDM, in addition to
large top-bottom (t-b) loop effects for small
(
), the Higgs-loop diagrams can contribute to the
cross section to some extent for moderate
values.
For larger
(
), such an
enhancement by the
Higgs non-decoupling effects is bounded by the requirement of the validity
of perturbation theory. In the MSSM with heavy superpartner particles,
only the t-b loops enhance the cross section
while Higgs-loop effects are very small.
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